Maize Demised

I have no choice but to cut down the maize plant, after waiting for so long it turn out both of them are male. Just my luck !

If one of them is female its then good enough, I then can complete my article on Maize in Aquaponics. Now I have to start new.

I planted maize before (not aquaponics) the male flower will be on top as in this picture above, and the female part will be the baby corn coming out in between the leaves. Normally about 2 or 3 baby corn will grow in a plant and they will be with the hairy tip to catch the male flower dropping down fertilizing the baby corn.

All is not lost, I did document all and its a learning process and next maize will contribute more knowledge in my learning curve.

Update 7th Nov

Cherry Tomatoes are now fruiting, no sign of any bug attacking them yet. Hope what I understand about them being resistance to white bugs is true.


Last week update : Here

 Close up shots of Cherries below.

The ones in my mini kit below also show sign of fruiting, however these tomatoes are stunted due to low nutrient and  being relatively new growbed it did not mature enough.
This mini kit on 24th Oct : Here

 Single Cherry Tomato from the mini kit.

Fern - Survivor

Marilen from Sydney asked. "Did you totally remove your edible fern ?"


I did remove all, but after few weeks roots that left inside the growbed regrow.

They grow big then I save one fern, for future stock

So what you see is what's left. They are easily grown. Picture above was taken 10 minutes ago.

Affnan